Tokyo’s ban on sex in anime, manga and games is not even law yet, but already mangaka are reporting publishers refusing to publish works set in schools or featuring school uniforms, with previously published works even in danger of having their reprints cancelled.

BL mangaka Shouko Takaku complains that her (unidentified, but “unfortunately not small”) publisher told her to stop using school trappings in her manga:

I was bluntly told the other day “because of the Tokyo ordinance, please stop using high school students [in your manga].” Depending on the label it seems you can’t even draw school uniforms…”

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Yes, I was really shocked – I was astonished and responded “Really? Really? It’s come to that now already?”

She comments that she expects the industry’s recent decline will only be accelerated by the introduction of the ban.

Another BL mangaka, Kanako Meiji, reports her publisher is considering cancelling a reprint of her works:

What’s going to happen? A new edition of one of my titles was due to be published in April, but now it’s under deliberation. It has lots of sex and minors. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s cancelled.

She compares the political precedent the law represents to Japan’s notorious 1925 “Peace Preservation Law,” a law which began Japan’s lurch towards totalitarianism by imposing a prison sentence of up to 10 years on anyone found guilty of threatening the “national character” of Japan.

Japan’s secret police force subsequently became notorious as “thought police,” and later revisions saw the law expanded to cover more types of thought crime and the right of appeal revoked. Only the American invasion saw them abolished.

Then, just as now, a vaguely worded law allowed authorities to intimidate into silence all those they did not lock up directly – a fate which seems likely to befall all publishers of anime, manga and games in Japan.

All of my favorite anime and manga do not feature school uniforms nor sex. They feature alot of young minors slashing, cutting, stabbing, piercing, crushing to a bloody pulp, evaporating, in ohter words destroying each other, though.

The school uniforms, the schoolgirls, it's all part of Japan! Why can't they be in manga? What would a manga LOOK LIKE without them? Blank pages?!??

It's only because Japan doesn't know what real crime is, being by far the safest country in the world, so they seek to find and fight more subtle tendencies of outlawism. Like, smiling at girls, driving 0.5km/h too fast...

Have you ever noticed how sex crimes in Japan is supposedly low? Couple with the contrast of Japanese culture, it's also not easy to dismiss that Japan may have an extremely high sex crime rate but only go unreported for the national census.

Care to show any proof? You just basically called Japanese men a pack of rapists who are allowed to continue raping because the women won't say anything. How did you come to this idea? Please show backing data.

"We've taken care of everything
The words you hear the songs you sing
The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes
It's one for all and all for one
We work together common sons
Never need to wonder how or why"

lets hope baning them, a mangaka just draws them in underwear and a few nude because they ware none, submit it, and post it online because they know it wont go through. they get up say "WELL GO FUCK YOURSELF" and walk out, never to work for a publisher again.

god of manga? that would be Osamu Tekzuka. I hope he comes back from the dead and beats up Ishihara or maybe write a manga the apocalypse that comes after then ban. People randomly raping others on the, having sex with horse, robbing each other and Ishihara getting burned by the people who have gone crazy from not having Manga with school uniforms.

This is what happens when kids are considered to be wards of the State, rather than their parents. The government knows what is best, and it will do it regardless of whatever a parent may want.

The benefit of this is that the youth get acclimated to being controlled by the government. They stop thinking for themselves because the government will tell them what to think and how to act. They will set the standards, and all you need to do is obey: obey and fit in. After a while, that sort of thinking becomes natural, and if you don't do it, then there's something wrong with you: you're confused, sick, or dangerous if you don't fit in, and the appropriate remedy will be applied whether you like it or not.

But, I guess what's good enough for the US is good enough for Japan, eh?

I agree that some parents really should never be allowed to have children. But when parents of a child are bad, only those children are affected by it (more or less), but when the government makes mistakes on what it imposes, *all* of the children are affected by it.

Furthermore, the means of fixing whatever is wrong is tremendously more difficult when it comes to correcting a government mistake than that of a individual parents.

So, I don't disagree with what you've said, but I'd rather have to deal with bad parents than a bad government.

As someone who was unfortunately considered wards of their parents, I can tell that neither extreme is good. Both can easily lead to horrible, horrible consequences. The question is how to blend the two in an as positive ratio as possible.

So now thought or having lustful thoughts when viewing a comic has to be censored to protect the children, what a joke. Reminds me of the whole christian crap we get here in the states. they use the same rhetoric of "but about the children" crap.

"Tokyo’s ban on sex in anime, manga and games is not even law yet, but already mangaka are reporting publishers refusing to publish works set in schools or featuring school uniforms, with previously published works even in danger of having their reprints cancelled."

its almost as if the publishers are in cahoots wuth the local government >_>

"Japan’s secret police force subsequently became notorious as “thought police,” and later revisions saw the law expanded to cover more types of thought crime and the right of appeal revoked. Only the American invasion saw them abolished.

Then, just as now, a vaguely worded law allowed authorities to intimidate into silence all those they did not lock up directly – a fate which seems likely to befall all publishers of anime, manga and games in Japan."

school uniform is no-go, but they dont say anything about being naked, skanky fantasy outfits, bondage-wear, lingerie, baby doll and two piece swimsuits/g-strings worn in classes at school so thats OK :D did i nail how it works?